Holiday time has arrived. I have taken leave and am spending lots of time with the babies. Lots has happened since their first swim. Eating of solids has really gone very quickly. Emma now eats more than Dylan. She also burns more energy as she is more active. They have both now moved to a three meal a day eating programme. In the morning they both have rice cereal, now 4 table spoons full. Lunch is still Butternut or like vegetables. Dylan has turned out to be a bit of a fussy vegetable eater. He did not want to eat his carrots that Mommy made specially for him. In the evening he now eats fruit. He took a bit of time to get used to his banana but is now enjoying it a lot. Emma has maize cereal for dinner. She is now over her reflux problems and is taking very well to the solids. They have now started to struggle a bit with constipation, but we have some medication for them if it gets really bad.
We have taken them swimming a couple more times. They last a little longer in the water now before they get cold. Emma has started to kick the water when you hold her on her back. Both of them enjoy their swimming a lot.
As you can see in the pictures they are very keen to lie on their stomachs these days. Dylan is at the moment starting to become more active. He is about a month behind Emma in the active stakes but is catching up quickly.
Our original night nurse finished her contract with us on the 15 December. We had found a new one who started with us. She irritated us so much that we only had her for 1 night.
BIG NEWS: Dylan now sleeps through.
On the night we got the new nurse Dylan slept from 7 o’clock in the evening till 5 o’clock the next morning. With this development we decided that we would try to get by without a night nurse during the week. It has been quite heavy going, but we are enjoying it tremendously, to be able to interact more with the babies. Dylan still sleeps through every night so far. Emma wakes up every night still at 2:40 in the morning. We are hoping she will soon sleep through too. That will make life a lot simpler. We are still keeping our night nurse for the weekends for now.
This week was the first time that Dylan actually lost a very small amount of weight and Emma put on a little. Dylan is still just over 10kg and Emma is at 8kg.
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Below is the Teddy bear sign that Anina made for the babies room door.
